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TellCityHall is a public sector program of Advanis, Inc., a Canadian Market Research company that has been in business for over 30 years. Advanis is contracted by organizations in the public and private sectors to conduct high-quality social and market research.

Broad Listening · Democratic AI for sensemaking

Editorial AI that turns thousands of individual voices into a navigable atlas of topics, claims and quotes, grounded back to the participants who said them.

Wiki Polis

What Happens When You Have a Choice? : A Breakdown of The People's Assembly and Blacksky's Vision for Democratic Tooling

Blacksky’s foundation is built on self-governance and self-determination. We took learnings from Black and Brown revolutionaries with our belief that everyone has the ability and the self-efficacy to do the things that are best for their community, but we also realize that that ability is something that is not seen as a right that everyone should be able to experience. Due to this, we sought out to create a solution, at least in the digital space, specifically for Blacksky.

CivicEngage — Find Your MP, MPP & Councillor Free | Canada

Enter your address. See every elected official who represents you. Write to them for free. No account required.

Home - LogiVote

Complete Solutions for a Campaign Management System and for Digital or Online Voting

Find Protests Near You - Updated Daily | find a protest

Find protests and solidarity events near you — updated daily. Discover local rallies, vigils, teach-ins and justice actions happening this week and weekend.

Find Protests Near You - Updated Daily | find a protest

Find protests and solidarity events near you — updated daily. Discover local rallies, vigils, teach-ins and justice actions happening this week and weekend.

CanadaGPT - Canadian Government Accountability & Transparency Platform

Track Canadian MPs, federal bills, parliamentary debates, lobbying activities, and government spending. Access comprehensive data on House of Commons proceedings, committee work, and political accountability with AI-powered insights.

patcon/valency-anndata

Experimental tooling to support notebook analysis of polislike data.

Bikespace

Civic Tech Toronto is a vibrant and diverse community of Torontonians engaged in understanding and creating solutions for civic challenges through technology, design, and other innovative means.

Civic Tech Toronto | A space to learn and collaborate

Civic Tech Toronto is a vibrant and diverse community of Torontonians engaged in understanding and creating solutions for civic challenges through technology, design, and other innovative means.

Connecting Research with Community - Civic Innovation Lab

Welcome to Civic Innovation Lab, where we drive social impact through collaborative solutions and empower communities. Join us in fostering sustainable development, co-creating initiatives, and advancing inclusive governance for a better future.

Civic Health Project

Technology can connect or divide us. At Civic Health Project, we're dedicated to advancing massively scalable solutions to society's dangerous divisions.

Civic Dashboard

Toronto City Council shouldn't feel complicated. We make it easy for Toronto residents to track councillor votes and get involved in local decisions.

Agora Citizen Network

Agora helps people overcome disagreement and find consensus, for more democratic and efficient decision-making.

blacksky-algorithms/assembly.blacksky.community

Blacksky People’s Assembly – a space for public deliberation and collective decision-making.

filaebot/chorus

ATProto-native community notes with bridging-based consensus

'Generative CI' through Collective Response Systems

How can many people (who may disagree) come together to answer a question or make a decision? "Collective response systems" are a type of generative collective intelligence (CI) facilitation process meant to address this challenge. They enable a form of "generative voting", where both the votes, and the choices of what to vote on, are provided by the group. Such systems overcome the traditional limitations of polling, town halls, standard voting, referendums, etc. The generative CI outputs of collective response systems can also be chained together into iterative "collective dialogues", analogously to some kinds of generative AI. Technical advances across domains including recommender systems, language models, and human-computer interaction have led to the development of innovative and scalable collective response systems. For example, Polis has been used around the world to support policy-making at different levels of government, and Remesh has been used by the UN to understand the challenges and needs of ordinary people across war-torn countries. This paper aims to develop a shared language by defining the structure, processes, properties, and principles of such systems. Collective response systems allow non-confrontational exploration of divisive issues, help identify common ground, and elicit insights from those closest to the issues. As a result, they can help overcome gridlock around conflict and governance challenges, increase trust, and develop mandates. Continued progress toward their development and adoption could help revitalize democracies, reimagine corporate governance, transform conflict, and govern powerful AI systems -- both as a complement to deeper deliberative democratic processes and as an option where deeper processes are not applicable or possible.

Plurality

A book by E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang and the Plurality Community exploring how technology can support and strengthen democracy.